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by reeses 13y ago
You talk about time to other cities because it's a constant. We talk about miles because otherwise, we'd have to say,"I live seven minutes from downtown SF between 10pm and 7am, an hour and a half between 7am and 10am, twenty
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by reeses 13y ago
Most comparisons I hear involving Austin run along the lines of "the San Francisco of Texas," or "next to San Francisco..." Except surfing. No one ever talks about surfing in the Austin area.
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by reeses 13y ago
You may be confounding ICE, CIS, and CBP, which is completely understandable (never mind EOIR, which is over in the DOJ and muddying the waters even more). The majority of CBP are federal "law enforcement" and are required to obt
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by reeses 13y ago
Two things here. 1) These are not the police. Police are trained law enforcement officers. These are customs and immigration employees. They get training, but it's more important that they can get a security clearance. 2) Can you th
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by reeses 13y ago
This is precisely what made Haskell's monads difficult for me to understand. I kept trying to fit the square block in the round hole. I finally had to divorce the terms in my head, much like watching the film version of a book that I
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by reeses 13y ago
They do not have a sense of humor. This would be a cute way of writing a blog post about your day(s) spent in detention before being sent back to your country of origin/citizenship.
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by reeses 13y ago
This is the same in the USA and most countries. "The border" (really, any ingress point where you haven't passed CBP) is effectively a rights-free zone. It's important to remember that you should have nothing that wi
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by reeses 13y ago
Do you really need that large a spacebar anyway? http://www.trulyergonomic.com (I feel like a shill, but this is what I use when I'm not on the road, with the keys remapped like a crazy person.)
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by reeses 13y ago
Byte is a good comparison. There were ads and then there were ads hidden as articles.
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by reeses 13y ago
You're not helping. We spelled it "Telenet" back then[1], and we used kermit to get to it, but we mainly used it for UUCP. My school was on BITNET, which really...bit. Laptops still required mains power supply. They were j
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by reeses 13y ago
To be fair, Woz hasn't had direct involvement with Apple (other than as a shareholder) in decades. He's definitely not responsible for "new" Apple.
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by reeses 13y ago
In terms of "hours of 'entertainment' per dollar", the pre-ecommerce Computer Shopper exceeded all other media, second only to going through the white pages and making prank calls. (There, I think I made enough "old
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by reeses 13y ago
If we take selective breeding, inbreeding, and hybridization into account, corn (maize) is one of the most genetically manipulated foods on the planet. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/science/25creature
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by reeses 13y ago
I appreciate your asking the questions that a lot of people have when they hear that HFCS is "evil". Generally, if people have been taught that there is more than one kind of sugar (yeah, I know), they learn about sucrose, glucose
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by reeses 13y ago
Total Information Awareness becomes Prism becomes Blackadder.
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by reeses 13y ago
The over-ear Quiet Comfort 'noise canceling' headphones are one exception, and I gnaw my own liver whenever I have to replace a pair I donated as a "seat back prize" to the passenger on the next flight.
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by reeses 13y ago
Getting older often involves forgetting to update the age at which people would not have experienced things directly. Of course, it makes sense when those people are 15-18, but...jeez. Thanks for the reminder. Humbling. :-)
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by reeses 13y ago
"Germany, which clearly has a superior human rights record than the U.S" I think I just pissed my pants. Pardon my rudeness, but West Germany was forced to improve their human rights record by imposition from the Allied countri
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by reeses 13y ago
People want to weigh the argument by weighing the person. I believe we call this 'ad hominem'. The guy did something that had massive fallout and would really like to be able to live at least some form of a life. Sure, the count
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by reeses 13y ago
Your origin is extremely slow. Perhaps this is an artifact of the HN rush, but it's slow enough that I would be looking for ways to improve home page response time. Ideally, under normal conditions, your 'active' landing pag
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by reeses 13y ago
You would need to make sure you still build the 'static site generator' on your current site (so login, search, and any other functionality dependent on your app is not exposed). This is relatively easy, and could possibly even ju
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by reeses 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. You don't know if they can make enough from exporting quinoa to import more diverse food, so...?
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by reeses 13y ago
Actually, that is precisely why you should form a hypothesis based on correlation. A properly conducted experiment should elucidate any causative link between the elements and the direction of those elements. Hypotheses are cheap. Create
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by reeses 13y ago
The problem is in distinguishing Logic from biased Rhetoric. p → q is often an inappropriate conclusion based on correlation of two vectors. The common counterexample is (r → p) ∧ (r → q). Rhetorically, "correlation (does not imply|i
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by reeses 13y ago
I hate working with people who send me a note after they've already sent me a meeting request, telling me that they saw an opening on my calendar and have set up an hour-long meeting with no agenda. It's a weird combination of laz
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by reeses 13y ago
There's still a lot of room to push the laws of physics, although I'm not sure glass is the answer. I think manufacturing tolerances will be the biggest limit for inexpensive handsets. If I play (hah!) stupid, I look at the flang
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by reeses 13y ago
This is basic Adam Smith-David Ricardo economics. They can grow quinoa and eat the seeds or export them and import a more diverse diet. Even if other countries can cultivate quinoa, it may make sense for Andeans to export their quinoa and i
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by reeses 13y ago
That's the question, isn't it? LE uses facial recognition to scan crowds. Now cars are tracked, not using GPS, an observing officer, or a member of the public (who may need to report a crime), but by snarfing video of all the li
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by reeses 13y ago
Maybe Uber is different in Toronto, but in SF it's basically making use of unallocated livery, i.e., Town Cars, etc. (with a useless taxi hailing service) I'm not sure riding in a "luxury" vehicle with a private driver
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by reeses 13y ago
I of course meant those four horrible days called "spring" and "autumn". :-)

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